HC Deb 02 July 1997 vol 297 cc168-71W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each education authority in England, and by class and in total, the amount of balances held in reserve for each year since 1990. [6342]

Mr. Byers

Local education authorities have reported the information set out in the following tables on the level of general fund revenue reserves held each year since 1990. The figures include reserves held by schools under local management, and funds, which may be substantial, held for specific purposes which may not be available for general expenditure. Comparisons made between financial years may be affected by changing accountancy practices, particularly the reclassification of some provisions as reserves.

Reserve for LEAs
£ million
At 1 April 1990 At 1 April 1991 At 1 April 1992 At 1 April 1993 At 1 April 1994 At 1 April 1995 At 1 April 1996
Manchester 31.7 4.0 19.0 -2.5 13.2 21.1 20.9
Oldham 9.1 31.6 34.1 40.0 34.4 25.4 21.5
Rochdale 11.1 3.6 2.4 5.3 16.9 16.7 17.6
Salford 10.4 2.0 0.0 6.6 24.0 28.2 27.8
Stockport 8.4 6.4 6.4 18.7 27.0 28.9 27.1
Tameside 16.3 8.4 4.0 0.8 6.3 10.5 12.1
Trafford 14.7 14.3 15.5 18.1 52.9 55.3 62.3
Wigan 8.9 13.1 7.2 11.5 32.1 33.8 36.0
Knowsley 2.3 0.2 1.2 3.8 8.0 12.5 13.9
Liverpool -2.1 0.0 -3.9 9.9 12.6 9.0 4.4
St. Helens 15.8 18.3 9.2 11.6 13.5 13.4 14.2
Sefton 7.0 4.8 3.9 6.0 8.6 10.4 6.3
Wirral 13.2 0.0 1.4 6.4 9.1 13.8 11.8
Barnsley 14.1 19.8 21.6 20.5 21.4 15.7 15.9
Doncaster 17.5 8.0 4.6 23.7 39.9 41.1 41.2
Rotherham 8.8 7.8 21.6 19.9 18.3 25.2 17.2
Sheffield 109.5 0.0 15.5 16.1 14.2 8.9 5.4
Gateshead 33.9 25.0 23.3 22.3 19.7 30.0 21.5
Newcastle upon Tyne 23.7 8.3 8.9 24.4 40.7 40.7 36.7
North Tyneside 6.8 3.9 2.9 3.2 10.3 11.8 12.4
South Tyneside 16.4 10.3 9.9 10.3 11.7 12.8 9.9
Sunderland 9.7 24.8 24.6 22.7 32.3 31.5 26.6
Birmingham 25.4 24.1 29.9 65.5 114.2 89.6 50.9
Coventry 0.0 24.5 11.0 13.8 66.1 73.1 68.4
Dudley 10.8 11.7 17.5 17.1 31.8 30.1 28.7
Sandwell 0.0 0.0 7.3 20.5 34.4 30.8 31.6
Solihull 4.1 14.8 7.0 23.7 30.6 18.1 22.9
Walsall 0.0 32.4 23.3 18.6 18.8 19.3 13.0
Wolverhampton 4.8 4.2 3.3 12.3 32.6 44.1 43.9
Bradford 5.8 3.5 4.8 10.9 27.5 22.8 12.1
Calderdale 5.7 11.6 8.3 11.0 12.7 12.5 10.1
Kirklees 12.0 14.8 7.4 16.7 26.3 32.5 27.8
Leeds 18.3 15.1 12.5 21.9 53.5 82.2 71.3
Wakefield 18.7 13.4 9.5 17.5 32.3 34.7 23.7
Avon 12.8 13.3 11.6 19.8 48.8 26.7 0.0
Bedfordshire (old) 13.2 15.7 16.9 22.2 25.7 21.6 16.8
Berkshire 4.5 7.9 17.0 72.1 58.0 61.8 58.3
Buckinghamshire (old) 26.7 0.0 27.5 38.0 46.8 51.7 52.5
Cambridgeshire 22.2 58.5 48.1 53.8 55.8 55.5 49.4
Cheshire 4.2 41.9 27.9 50.2 78.6 67.1 63.5
Cleveland 9.7 7.4 4.8 13.4 22.9 27.8 0.0
Cornwall 23.4 28.4 33.1 24.8 51.1 45.4 47.7
Cumbria 3.3 10.1 14.2 12.4 18.5 19.8 25.6
Derbyshire (old) 0.0 0.0 11.3 21.1 24.5 23.1 23.9
Devon 46.8 52.8 47.9 47.1 45.1 36.5 34.2
Dorset (old) 5.7 14.4 7.8 4.3 19.0 25.3 24.8
Durham (old) 22.4 23.9 22.0 19.3 20.1 20.9 30.1
East Sussex (old) 27.4 8.9 16.4 21.6 30.1 42.9 41.5
Essex 26.8 18.1 39.4 45.4 90.1 120.1 104.8
Gloucestershire 2.4 2.4 3.9 13.8 23.5 25.0 26.1
Hampshire (old) 7.4 29.9 52.9 74.2 83.0 92.1 70.7
Hereford and Worcester 7.4 6.2 5.4 22.2 36.4 38.2 35.4
Hertfordshire 13.0 19.4 25.6 42.0 82.6 85.2 75.9
Humberside 19.4 27.5 27.7 25.0 35.2 37.1 0.0
Isle of Wight 1.3 5.0 4.1 4.7 5.0 0.0 0.0
Kent 19.8 30.4 20.5 33.9 62.2 67.1 57.2
Lancashire 12.8 21.3 26.2 69.4 73.1 61.5 47.1
Leicestershire (old) 28.8 24.2 20.0 15.3 31.2 35.3 26.9
Lincolnshire 44.9 50.9 42.9 42.3 48.4 39.9 29.6
Norfolk 13.1 13.1 13.1 31.0 83.1 85.9 77.4
North Yorkshire (old) 38.8 38.7 34.4 33.9 36.6 42.0 0.0
North Yorkshire 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.1
Northamptonshire 9.3 9.1 9.1 37.9 28.1 33.4 32.9
Northumberland 19.5 24.8 23.2 19.8 25.7 25.4 26.8
Nottinghamshire 0.0 0.0 6.5 81.6 73.8 55.2 32.1
Oxfordshire 16.2 10.5 12.0 25.6 48.4 34.1 25.8
Shropshire 9.7 13.7 9.9 12.4 22.1 14.8 10.2
Somerset 14.7 15.9 28.2 28.3 40.6 41.9 34.3
Staffordshire (old) 13.2 17.1 16.5 20.7 69.9 87.2 78.1
Suffolk 9.7 9.8 16.1 34.5 42.6 52.2 46.6
Surrey 8.7 15.9 41.7 59.0 99.7 86.2 64.4
Warwickshire 19.2 12.8 7.4 32.2 34.7 26.4 30.1
West Sussex 39.5 7.2 7.9 27.9 29.4 34.4 23.4
Wiltshire (old) 0.0 25.4 9.4 20.0 38.8 42.7 31.7
Isles of Scilly 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.7 1.2 1.7 2.1

Reserve for LEAs
£ million
At 1 April 1990 At 1 April 1991 At 1 April 1992 At 1 April 1993 At 1 April 1994 At 1 April 1995 At 1 April 1996
Bath and North East Somerset
UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.7
Bristol UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0
South Gloucestershire UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.5
North Somerset UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.5
Hartlepool UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.4
Middlesborough UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0
Redcar and Cleveland UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Stockton on Tees UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.3
East Riding of Yorkshire UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0
Kingston upon Hull UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.4
North East Lincolnshire UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.7
North Lincolnshire UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.1
Isle of Wight UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.8 12.5
York UA 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17.6
England 1,873.9 1,683.5 1,737.2 2,495.2 3,810.6 3,913.7 3,657.3
Inner London 409.6 310.3 306.1 333.3 501.0 504.4 558.7
Outer London 333.0 244.3 228.6 323.1 541.4 589.7 570.7
Mets 512.6 396.5 391.3 565.0 978.1 1019.9 898.3
Shires 618.2 732.4 810.5 1,273.1 1,788.8 1,789.2 1,482.6
Unitaries 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.7 1.2 10.5 146.9
1. Data from 1 April 1990 to 1 April 1995 is derived from LEAs' Revenue Summary (RS) returns.
2. Data for 1 April 1996 is derived from LEAs' Revenue Account (RA) budget returns for 1997–98.
3. The figures do not include appropriations to and from reserves during the financial year.
4. The figures include LMS balances for schools and ear-marked funds which are not available for general use.